Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi termed the alleged sexual exploitation of inmates at shelter homes in Odisha a-matter-of shame and demanded the arrest of staff involved in it. She said staff of the shelter homes should be put in jail and not simply sacked for "criminal" activities. Maneka Gandhi said the staff of the shelter homes should be put in jail.

The government has shut down 539 childcare institutes (CCIs) across the country since August, following incidents of abuse and violence against inmates of shelter homes in Muzaffarpur (Bihar) and Deoria (Uttar Pradesh). According to a senior official in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, these institutions were shut down following a social audit conducted by the ministry.

Several cases of alleged mishandling of sexual-harassment complaints have come forward from different AIR stations in wake of recent #MeToo revelations. In these cases, which have occurred over the last-few-years, victims all casual women employees, some of them working for two decades have not got any assignment since they complained. All accused are permanent staffers some of them were transferred, others got an all-clear.